Consortium News, a foreign policy-focused news website founded by an award-winning journalist who helped break the Iran-Contra story in the 1980s, is suing NewsGuard and the US government for alleged collusion in delete their reports, which are critical of US foreign policy. politics.
The complaint, filed in federal court, focuses on NewsGuard’s relationship with the Pentagon’s Cyber ​​Command. In 2021, the Pentagon hired NewsGuard to develop a system called “disinformation fingerprints” to catalog “known hoaxes, falsehoods and disinformation narratives that are being spread online.”
The complaint alleges that the US government worked with NewsGuard to target and suppress reporting by the Consortium, which often takes a critical stance on US foreign policy toward Russia, Ukraine and the Middle East.
Consortium alleges that through its contract with the Pentagon, NewsGuard was “acting jointly or in concert with the United States to coerce news organizations to alter viewpoints,” engaging in “censorship and suppression of opinions”.
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